Alberta says it will take action on two fronts Thursday in its escalating fight with Saskatchewan over the ban on Alberta licence plates on Saskatchewan job sites. Deron Bilous, Alberta's economic development minister, said unless Saskatchewan relents he will launch a formal application under the New West Partnership. "They have until midnight tonight to smarten up, come to their senses and walk this back or we will be filing a trade injunction," Bilous said Wednesday.

"It's about getting as close as you can without getting run over," Buffalo says. Buffalo just finished competing in the Bullfighters Only Championship in Las Vegas. Buffalo finished third in his bracket, missing a chance to move on by half a point.

A former Winnipeg television news director accused of robbing banks in Alberta has been granted bail. Vogelsang, who is 54, is charged with robbing two banks in Medicine Hat, three in Regina and one in Saskatoon. Judge Darwin Greaves of Medicine Hat provincial court agreed Wednesday to let Vogelsang return to Winnipeg to arrange his affairs, then he must turn himself in for a psychiatric assessment to determine if he can be held criminally responsible.

An accidental "customs breach" at Pearson airport Wednesday afternoon caused a long delay for passengers at U.S. customs in Terminal 3. A WestJet plane flying in from Calgary offloaded its passengers accidentally onto the U.S. side by an open bypass door. Guests then needed to clear U.S. customs and return to the Canadian side.

1) A new mechanism will be introduced so Canadians who take time out of the workforce to raise children or due to disability don't see a drop in their retirement benefits. The new portion of CPP will have "drop-in" provisions that will assign a higher income for those years and use that to calculate retirement benefits. The Finance Department defends the use of drop-in provisions because the "enhanced" CPP, as it is known, is based on a fixed, 40-year benefit accrual period making it easier to drop in amounts rather than dropping out years as is the case in the base CPP.

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